Sur La Table in Smith Haven Mall, in Lake Grove, offers classes in which students make shaped cookies that can be Christmas or decorative holiday ornaments such as these decorated gingerbread cookies made in class. (Nov. 28, 2012) (Credit: Bruce Gilbert)

This hands-on baking class at Sur la Table is designed to elevate one's cookie repertoire. Participants will practice decorating tips using icing, sprinkles and other toppings and can create gingerbread trees, stained glass cookies, lemon-thyme wreaths and peppermint sticks.

"We wanted to offer students cookies that are geared around the holiday," says chef Eddie Gallagher....

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Sur La Table in Smith Haven Mall, in Lake Grove, offers classes in which students make shaped cookies that can be Christmas or decorative holiday ornaments. Here, a student cuts out shapes to make a stained glass window cookie. (Nov. 28, 2012)(Credit: Bruce Gilbert)